Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We have really enjoyed bringing you constructive and atypical Product Management research, practical work advice, and analysis. Bain Public is a Product consultancy that helps companies make smart decisions, and ship top-notch products that captivate customers and achieve business objectives. found the most interesting in 2019.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Based in Montreal, Bain Public is a digital product consultancy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Asking short questions about a specific practice in a snapshot survey can guide team leadership to the most valuable places to improve. Think like an architect: to design and construct a high-performance building requires them to deeply understand the needs of their clients. Clarity is key.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Over time, CS evolved when more CSMs and CS leadership looked to improve and standardize its practices, processes, and procedures. . Others were consultative, or they advised about technical needs. CS Ops Leadership. Getting down in the trenches also indicates a passion for leadership and work. Who would oversee them?

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Based in Montreal, Bain Public is a digital product consultancy.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Based in Montreal, Bain Public is a digital product consultancy.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Based in Montreal, Bain Public is a digital product consultancy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management. For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 16, 2021

This behavioral question is frequently asked at Amazon to allow candidates to directly demonstrate the "Ownership" leadership principle. Another important Leadership Principle at Amazon is "Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit." "Tell me about a time you improved a complex process." Watch our video answer to this question here.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Be aware that collaboration requires leadership. In the worst case, people get fed up with trying to get hold of you or waiting for an answer and stop consulting you. Assume that the team members want to do their best. Be honest and open. Learn More.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Climbing the leadership ladder.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Or should they offer transitory leadership support through coaching? Related read: How to Make Sure Your Product Leadership Team Will Boost You Up - Not Drag You Down. How do you approach constructive criticism? The Product Veteran vs The Coachable Product Leader. So take their advice and execute on it! Accepting Criticism.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2018

People are openly hostile to suggestions and new pieces of work – often jumping over each other to poke holes in other people’s work, and barely trying to mask it as constructive criticism. Conflict can be mined and used constructively by those who understand it. What Does Being Good at Conflict Look Like?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh on Pexels When I first started my consulting business , I attended a sales coaching workshop. You will most likely start to test these repeatable constructs within this stage, and then when you feel you know enough your focus will shift to that entirely, which means you are in stage 4 ahead.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

So I frame this as a leadership challenge: how do we (as product leaders) let our product managers know that what’s acceptable, and that we’ll intervene when needed? Disagreements and criticism are shared privately, respectfully, constructively. (We Trash-talk our development team in front of customers or Sales.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2018

All very theoretical, so let’s construct an example… Imagine that we’re at a medium/large ecommerce company with 90+ developers and mission-critical back-end infrastructure. The underlying issue, though, is that neither team has bandwidth, so each constructs technical arguments for why the other team should do the work.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

Talk constructively about where to go next. Bain Public is a Product consultancy that helps companies make smart decisions, and ship top-notch products that captivate customers and achieve business objectives. — Everyone following you. They should know the right direction.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. We hold quarterly high-level prioritization meetings to help the company’s leadership define the roadmap priorities. We owe it to the leadership.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Product managers have to engage in conversation with the CEO and talk constructively about a direction and where to go next. With services ranging from product leadership to product strategy, management, development, user experience and marketing, we focus exclusively on helping define and refine product organisations.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Avoiding ultimatums, some mid-level women have thoughtfully said: “There are no women on the senior leadership team, and I wonder if I can succeed at our company.” More constructive than an immediate threat to quit. We could get some help from HR or an outside expert …” Even faced with an ultimatum, though, we would be digging in.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

As product leaders, we need to be smart about constructing effective teams that work within our companies. This is leadership by example and persuasion and insight — much more than just organizational politics. Designing teams and task forces. We must be keen observers of corporate behavior. Sound Byte.

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Bain Public

MAY 21, 2018

It's a bottom-up process, you attempt to solve a problem with the team, get a signal early and use it to construct the bigger picture. Bain Public is a Product consultancy that helps companies make smart decisions, and ship top-notch products that captivate customers and achieve business objectives.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If they understand the direction of your product, then sales teams will be better equipped to overcome objections associated with missing features, and can make their conversations more constructive. Those who demonstrate your product – sales engineer, pre-sales consultant, or sales executive – do so based on real-life scenarios.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. Constructive negative feedback on tasks and goals is welcome. A low-hanging fruit for outsourcing is anything that can largely be done in isolation. That’s fairly straightforward.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Much like you wouldn’t attempt to trek through the Amazon without a map, you shouldn’t attempt to navigate through the rainforests of SaaS without consulting your roadmap. However, Sales teams can use it to tell prospects what you have planned, and Leadership can use it to keep track of where their product is headed.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A product is no different from a well-constructed story. To nurture this relationship, Melissa Perri, a Product Strategy, UX Design, and Process consultant, suggests focusing on the skills each team brings to the table. Here we look at the skills every successful product manager needs in order to conquer the changing landscape.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

If there are valid innovation concerns (and there usually are), strong product leaders get the key stakeholders together in a safe setting for constructive discussion. And within that, I’m happy to have Customer Success leadership help me re-prioritize what will make the most front-line impact. DEVELOPMENT.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

We may spend months (or years) building out a near-perfect physical prototype of our next version, completely specifying our next product iteration by rigorously designing and constructing a test unit or two – then releasing the detailed specs, bill of materials, cost estimates, and performance stats to our manufacturing/operations/purchasing teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

?. Like the built world, the internet is constructed for the majority. I call myself a service designer, which I guess it’s an emerging term in this market, but for the last 14 years I lived in Australia, and I had my own business and consultancy over there. As a rule, design should first do no harm.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs came from the customer side: construction execs heading up project management vendors; high-powered investors leading robo-advisor startups; musicians running streaming services. [Experiment: how many sales call have you joined where the prospect did 75% of the talking and we probed for good low-cost alternatives to our product?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 31, 2021

Company leaders who aren’t steeped in how software is designed and built can apply less-than-useful analogies for how software products are built. These analogies tend to highlight predictability, scheduling and cost management. but may not be that useful. This post unpacks a few of them.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2017

So we engage constructively by reaching people where they are. Prioritization is really hard, especially since it means saying NO to lots of valuable things. Framing this for a particular audience may mean translating it into their own concepts or terminology.

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BrainMates

APRIL 7, 2019

I recall sitting in a Senior Leadership Team meeting, where our Editor-in-Chief was presenting to a newly formed Executive team on the extensive history of the newspaper title. Find tools to help your team provide constructive feedback and to remove the emotional burden that comes with providing feedback. So what have we learned?

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With a background in Business Administration, Management, and Leadership, he has vast experience as a Business consultant, Product strategist, and now as an Innovation Portfolio Lead. Then later on, I did some management and digital consulting as well. “ Innovation is not something completely brand new. .”

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

So you can think of yourself as almost, like, a McKinsey or a BCG consultant that’s coming in and playing the role of the business strategist, trying to see around corners and anticipate what the market might want. So and it’s something that we needed leadership buy-in to do. ” Right? Something different?

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

You must learn to do so in a way that is strategic and constructive without completely shutting down the other person. Go over the pros and cons of each idea to encourage a positive and constructive conversation. Listening and asking questions to give the other person some control shows that you respect their point of view.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

BOLD stands for Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development. As such, BOLD interns can access many mentorship opportunities, leadership talks, and team-building exercises to build connections with colleagues throughout Google. Google promotes professional and personal development for not only their interns but Googlers too.

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